Recharge your Smartphone less in the future?

Transistors, the workhorses of the electronics world, are plagued by leakage current. This results in unnecessary energy losses, which is why smartphones and laptops, for example, have to be recharged so often. Researchers have recently shown that this leakage current can be radically reduced by "squeezing" the transistor with a piezoelectric material. Using this approach, they have surpassed the theoretical limit for leakage current. R&D Daily Dec. 06,2013